6/7/8 Volunteer Appreciation Festivity

FESTIVITY STATS:
Volunteer Start Time: 5:00 pm for chatting, food prep, snacking
Official Start Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Los Altos
Estimated Time: 3 to 4 hrs for food & fun
Elevation change: Minimal
Difficulty: MODERATE (for endurance)
Event Type: Restricted
Bonus Points: For CARPOOLING

Have you ever helped us out: led a group, shared snacks or water, taken photos, come up with ideas for hikes or events, emailed research, found a restaurant for post-hiking, brought friends, shared the good word? Then this Volunteer Appreciation Festivity is for YOU!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for all that you've done to help make this awesome group of folks even more phenomenal. We really appreciate all energy and enthusiasm that our individual Hikalites offer to take care of this group.

Please keep in mind that there are LOTS of ways for folks to help out. Some examples that might not be immediately obvious include:

1. Research. Finding locations, getting permits, writing hike or event descriptions, locating electronic maps, creating the routes files and posting them. There are lots of small things that all come together before an event and even taking up ONE of these pieces helps out. This is especially true for EVENTS (things like the picnics, the urban hike, 2ENB)

2. Group Leads on Hike Days. You have no idea how helpful all you guys who have taken out Groups-of-10 are on hike day. Splitting up into small groups is really important for our relationship with the parks. I love all the help that you all have offered.

3. Event Coordinators. Although we're a hiking group, we have AWESOME events every once in a while. For any of you who have ever coordinated an event, you know there's lots of coordination (talking with rangers, permits, finding things like sign-in tables, last minute runs to the store for lighter fluid, set-up and tear-down).

We will enjoy the hospitality of one of our fine members for this particular festivity. This will be "potluck style", so in your RSVP, feel free to share ideas about what you'd like to bring ... especially if it's a team effort (like BBQ). There will be self-assembly of food stuff and free-form sharing of snacks - kind of like hike day. Since this is a private home, SHARING RIDES keeps the neighbors happy and is strongly encouraged. Location is Los Altos. Directions to be sent privately.

This event type is Restricted. In this case, we're opening the event to folks who have been (or would like to be) volunteers for our group. Please be aware that the event organizer (Maura) may change your RSVP. In the event that we have an overwhelming response, priority will be given to folks who have already volunteered at past events.

I am really looking forward to seeing YOU at the 6/7/8 VAF - or out on the trails soon.